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Two lava pillars support part of a remnant of the lava lake erupted in 1991 in the Axial Summit trough of the East Pacific Rise near Marker 92. The horizontal ribs, or selvages, are formed as the eruption wanes and the ponded lava withdraws back into the fissure or out across the ridge crest. Distance across bottom of the photograph is about 3 meters.

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